Srosshead



April 2, 1929. c. A. KNAPP 1,707,228

CROSSHEAD Filed Sept. 18, 1924 Patented Apr. 2, 1929.

UNITED STA ru ns CLYDE A. KNAPP, or HARVEY, ILLrNoIs.

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Application filed SeptemberIS, 1924. Serial No. 738,497.

The invention relates to cross heads, particularly of the type used in connection with locomotives wherein thecrosshead reciprocates in horizontally disposed crosshead guides, and has for its object to provide a de vice oi this character con'iprising a wedge shaped body portion to which a piston rod is connected, and wedge shaped shoes carried by the upper and lower sides or the body member and provided with means. whereby said shoes may be adjusted inwardly for taking up wear on the shoes and guides, thereby obviating the necessity of placing liners in the crosshcad or removing the crosshead from the guide.

A further object isto provide the adjust able shoes with lugs which overlie the sides of the wedge shaped body member and the body n'ieinber with lugs which overlie the adjustable shoes and adjusting bolts extending through said lugs oi the shoes and wedge shaped body of the crosshead and forming means whereby the shoes may be forced longitudinally in relation to the crosshead body for taking up wear, and particularly what is known as vertical wear. Also to provide one.

of said lugs with an elongated slot through which the bolts extend thereby allowing vcr-- tical movement of the bolts during the adjustiug operation.

id/ith the above and other objects in view the invention resides in thecombination and arrai'igement or" parts as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawing, described and clain'ied, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment oi? the invention may be made within the scope of what claimed without departing from the spirit of the in vention.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a side elevation of the crosshead Figure 2 is a section taken on .line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Figure 3 parts.

is a collective detail. view of the Figure 4i is a top plan view of the crosshcad showii'ig the ai'ljustahle shoe removed.

liteierring to the drawing, the numeral. 1 designates spaced crosshead guides in parallel relation to each other, an d which guides are of a conventional form, for instance of the type used on locon'ioti'ves. It has been found that when the guides wear, or the crosshead wears, in a conventional term of device, the piston rod 9. is moved out of its proper axial alinement with its piston and cylinder,

thereby reducing the efliciency of the engine, and at the same time wearing the packing glands out of I'OllllLl WlliUl'l causes leakage, as well as inefficient operation. Toobviate this dil'liculty the crosshead 3 is provided, whichcrosshead comprises the wedge shaped body portion 4; and the adjustable crosshead shoes 5. The body portion l comprises spaced plates 6 which are connected together adj scent one of their ends by the integral portion 7, and to which integral portion the pisston rod 2 is connected by means of a diagonally extending key 8. Pivotally connected on the wrist pin 9 between the plates 6 is a conventional form of connecting rod 10, which operates in the usual n'iai'iner.

Shoes 5 have their inner sides provided with inclined surfaces 11 which engage the inclined surfaces 12 01 the body inen'iber t, therefore it will be seen that as wear developes on the guide .l. or the shoes 5, said wear may be taken up by adjusting the shoes in the direction of the arrows a and ii said shoes are adjusted the same distance the wear may be taken up without interfering with the alinen'ient of the piston rod 2. Extei'iding down.- wardly from the inner sides 11 of the shoes 5 are flanges 13, which are disposed between the plates 6, and provided with elongated apertures 1 through which the bolts 15 which er:- tend through the plate 6 extend, and which bolts when tightened clamp the flanges 13 between the plates (3, thereby additionally holding the same against ll'lOVGl-lltflil] after an adjusting operation. l lxtending outwariilly from the outer sides of the shoes 5 adjacemx their wide ends are integral lugs 16, which lugs overlie the outerv face of the body member i: of the cross head, and are provided with vertically disposed elongated recesses 1? through which the securing bolts 18 extend. Bolts 18 are threaded through lugs 19 carried by opposite sides of the body t and which lugs overlie the other tacos oi: the shoes 5. It will be seen that when the bolts 18 are adjusted the wedge shaped crosshead shoes .3 may be forced in the direction of the arrows a for taking up wear thereon or on the guides, an d by providing the elongated recesses 17 the shoes 5 may have freedom of movement in a vertical plane during the adjustii'ig operation without a side bending strain on the bolts. Lugs 16 and 19 also term guiding means for guiding the shoes during the adj lISllll'lOll'li thereo'l.

From the above it wlll be seen that an adjustable crosshead isprovide'd whereby the wear on the crosshead or guides may be easily and quickly taken up Without throwing the piston rod out of alinement, and said-piston rod, if out of alinement, may be easily and body member having opposite surfaces each inclined throughout the entire length of the co -operable-with.theinclined. surfaces of the wedge shapedbody member, take-up shoes longitudinally adjustable along each of the inclined su'rfaeesof thebody member and having-surfaces inclined fromiendto end and body member: andradapted. to be initially -disposed, substantially coincident therewith, a piston rod; connected. to the wedge shaped body-member andextending-from oneend, a

connecting rod. connected to .the opposite end of said. body member andswingahle with respect thereto the inclined surfaces diverging from the piston rod and to the connecting rod of the crosshead, a pair of lugs extending laterally from the body member adjacent its inclined surfaces,- sai'd lugs being disposed betweenthe ends of the inclined surfaces of the body member laterally extending lugs on the take-up shoes at the piston ends thereof, said last lugs being aligned longitudinally with said first lugs and disposed between the ends of the inclined surfaces of the take-up shoes, said shoes being initially disposed with aminimum of longitudinal. end-wise extension from the body member and being adjustable from said minimum.extension in taking up wear after use, andbol ts eo-operable with the lugs onthe body member and with the lugs on said shoes and adjustable fronrthe piston rod end of the body member toiuljust the shoes longitudinally along the, inclined surfaces thereof.

In testimony whereof I. have signed. my name to this specification.

CLYDE A. KNAPP. 

